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by Starborn
2018-11-20 15:17
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: Debian not starting with systemd (SOLVED: install Debian 9)
Replies: 8
Views: 3769

Re: Debian not starting with systemd; starts fine with sysVi

A last update, if anyone still reads along. Goodbye Jessie... and OpenSUSE. Hello Stretch! Today I had installed OpenSUSE "Leap 15" (with Gnome) over Debian 8.11. OpenSUSE worked...but it was as slow as a turtle (both CPU cores were at 100% continuously, and the 2 GB RAM were always aroun...
by Starborn
2018-11-19 20:38
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Your most relevant linux/Debian memories
Replies: 9
Views: 7439

Re: Your most relevant linux/Debian memories

Not Debian, here. I remember Mandrakelinux being my first Linux distro that worked well (alongside Windows Millennium). I found it awesome that there was an OS world outside Microsoft Windows. I bought Mandrakelinix as "boxed" software with CD-roms and a manual. In fact, my first tries in ...
by Starborn
2018-11-19 20:25
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Meanwhile in the Windoze 10 world ...
Replies: 8
Views: 6836

Re: Meanwhile in the Windoze 10 world ...

If you have to use Win10 for some reason (I do for one pro audio interface that only has Win/Mac drivers - Digico UB MADI. And some games.), it's possible to make it behave much more civilly using a program like Win10Privacy - https://www.winprivacy.de/english-home/ Very interesting! I will try it ...
by Starborn
2018-11-19 20:19
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Meanwhile in the Windoze 10 world ...
Replies: 8
Views: 6836

Re: Meanwhile in the Windoze 10 world ...

I am "testing" Windows 10 on one of my main computers for a month or two now.. I bow to you, O Lord Of Patience! :) I am thinking that I have masochist tendencies in me... :| ..mainly because of "CorelDRAW Graphics Suite" (eat that, GIMP )... Err.. I guess you mean Inkscape , be...
by Starborn
2018-11-19 20:00
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: So, IBM acquires Red Hat.
Replies: 31
Views: 20897

Re: So, IBM acquires Red Hat.

thekramer wrote:So if Microsoft buys Canonical, what could that mean for the relationship between Ubuntu and Debian?
Imagine "Microsoft Linux". :shock:

When it comes to the "Redmond Posse", I always wonder if (and hope that) the GPL's are strong enough.
by Starborn
2018-11-19 18:57
Forum: Forum information, requests, and feedback.
Topic: Why does Google not show the Debians forums?
Replies: 16
Views: 45540

Re: Why does Google not show the Debians forums?

You misunderstand me: startpage.com forwards anonymous search queries to Google on the user's behalf in order to avoid the filter bubble that distorts results depending on previous search history. You are very right. That is indeed how Starpage works (so I read). I will try Startpage instead of Goo...
by Starborn
2018-11-19 18:55
Forum: Forum information, requests, and feedback.
Topic: Why does Google not show the Debians forums?
Replies: 16
Views: 45540

Re: Why does Google not show the Debians forums?

We're all star children! Who is "we", are you extraterrestrial or what ? I certainly am not some "star child" , I hatched from a egg, but can't speak for the others. :mrgreen: Actually, we are all "children of stars". I don't know how much you know about stars fission,...
by Starborn
2018-11-19 17:55
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: Debian not starting with systemd (SOLVED: install Debian 9)
Replies: 8
Views: 3769

Re: Debian not starting with systemd; starts fine with sysVi

If anyone is reading my thread, here is an update. Debian is no more... I have installed Bunsenlabs "Hydrogen" "over" Debian, upgraded it to "Helium" seemingly without any problems, and I am getting the same problem: Loading, please wait... fsck from util-linux 2.25.2 /...
by Starborn
2018-11-17 11:17
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: Debian not starting with systemd (SOLVED: install Debian 9)
Replies: 8
Views: 3769

Re: Debian not starting with systemd; starts fine with sysVi

I switched off the computer, replaced the DVI cable back to the VGA-to-DVI adapter, switch on the computer, and Debian/systemd boots normally. ~$ pidof systemd && echo "systemd" || echo "other" 1268 1020 systemd Systemd. Only the screen resolution is still 1024x768, and s...
by Starborn
2018-11-17 10:43
Forum: Debian Development Discussion
Topic: reduce steps in debian install
Replies: 16
Views: 18087

Re: reduce steps in debian install

This is probably "obsolete" by now, but I would like to say this anyway. As someone who has installed different Linux distros on several computers for several times, I found the Debian 7 installer (which I installed back end of 2015) the most, well, "complicated". Particularly th...
by Starborn
2018-11-17 10:11
Forum: Forum information, requests, and feedback.
Topic: Why does Google not show the Debians forums?
Replies: 16
Views: 45540

Re: Why does Google not show the Debians forums?

But Google does show the Debian User Forums, I surely HOPE that Google shows the Debian forum, when entering "Debian support forum", or I would have been really suspicous! :D https://www.google.be/search?client=opera&q=debian+check+screen+resolution&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&...
by Starborn
2018-11-17 08:56
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: Debian not starting with systemd (SOLVED: install Debian 9)
Replies: 8
Views: 3769

Re: Debian not starting with systemd; starts fine with sysVi

Goodmorning to all who read along, The mystery deepens. Five minutes ago I connected this old computer to the flatscreen by means of a DVI cable, and Debian booted (and rebooted) normally - but the screen resolution is "messed up". In Settings > Display it says "Unknown monitor"....
by Starborn
2018-11-14 16:46
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: Debian not starting with systemd (SOLVED: install Debian 9)
Replies: 8
Views: 3769

Re: Debian not starting with systemd; starts fine with sysVi

How did you configure your system to boot with sysvinit? I did not configure anything (even after 11 years in Linux, I am not a Linux expert). :) In the GRUB menu, I "just" chose/choose "Advanced options", where it shows the options " Debian GNU/Linux " (with systemd, ...
by Starborn
2018-11-10 17:31
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Meanwhile in the Windoze 10 world ...
Replies: 8
Views: 6836

Re: Meanwhile in the Windoze 10 world ...

I work with the government of my country. We went from AIX back in 1996/1997 to Windows 2000 to SLED Linux 10 to Windows 7 to, now, Windows 10. When I informed why they went Microsoft again, the reply I got was that they had asked Microsoft for the best way to "uniformize" the computer sys...
by Starborn
2018-11-10 16:38
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited
Replies: 45
Views: 40533

Re: Where are you from? Which language uses/speaks?*edited

Roel63 wrote:The Netherlands, born and raised and still living there.

Next to Dutch I speak English, German, French.
Hey, look, a neighbour from the north. :)
by Starborn
2018-11-10 16:36
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: So, IBM acquires Red Hat.
Replies: 31
Views: 20897

Re: So, IBM acquires Red Hat.

It could have been worse. It could have been Microsoft, instead of IBM.
by Starborn
2018-11-10 16:19
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: List of your linux Apps
Replies: 441
Views: 577365

Re: List of your linux Apps

Excuse me. What are "apps"?

Oh, you mean "programs"? :P
by Starborn
2018-11-10 15:56
Forum: Forum information, requests, and feedback.
Topic: Why does Google not show the Debians forums?
Replies: 16
Views: 45540

Why does Google not show the Debians forums?

A curious observation I often make. When searching for information about Debian, Google (what else?) rarely gives links to postings on the Debian forums. It gives tons of hits to the Ubuntuforum and to other forums and to blogs - and those are helpful too - but never/rarely the Debian forums. Why is...
by Starborn
2018-11-10 15:38
Forum: System and Network configuration
Topic: Debian not starting with systemd (SOLVED: install Debian 9)
Replies: 8
Views: 3769

Debian not starting with systemd (SOLVED: install Debian 9)

A "hello" to all who read this, I am running "Jessie" 8.11 on an old (as in "old") Core2Duo//2 GB RAM//Geforce 6700XL//1 TB HD computer since 2015 or so. It has always worked quite well, but now I am having a serious problem that I cannot solve myself. Debian is connec...
by Starborn
2015-12-31 13:47
Forum: Debian Development Discussion
Topic: Why do 'developers' always insist on 'fixing' that which was
Replies: 27
Views: 27950

Re: Why do 'developers' always insist on 'fixing' that which

dasein wrote:Oooo! (furious hand-waving)... I know this one!!

Because they imagine that they are just so much smarter than everyone who came before them (*cough*systemd*cough*).
Or because they have too much time on their hands :rolleyes: (And I am not thinking of Linux Devs in particular here.)